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Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century. Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Middleton and Rowley's masterpiece, a tale of murder, lust, seduction and blackmail in the seventeenth century. Alsemero has fallen in love with the beautiful Beatrice after a chance...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573708176Format PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary play about a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own. A Doll's House was premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary play about a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own. A Doll's House was premiered at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December...

"Moliere's classic farce pokes fun at Argan, a man so obsessed by his own imaginary ailments that he can no longer control his haphazard household or the mercenary medics he employs. With doctors determined to grow fat from the profits of his condition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856763793Author John GodberFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger PlaysDimensions(mm) 195mm * 130mm * 8mm

A selection of the most enduring work of one of this century's best-known French playwrights This selection of plays by Jean Anouilh (1910-87), includes The Rehearsal ('quintissential Anouilh', Herald Tribune); Becket ('witty, intelligent, full of...

Of all of Jonson's plays, Bartholomew Fair with its focus on the conflict between a carnivalesque enjoyment of the flesh and society's desire for order and control, speaks most directly to the modern audience. This edition is the first to use the...

Up-and-coming comics Alex and Ben have been booked in the warm-up spot for a beloved but fading double act's comeback tour. Neither is delighted to be playing to a sparse crowd in a sleepy seaside town - but when it's revealed that a Hollywood director...

The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function. Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the height of Thatcherism when huge political changes were...

'One no more owes one's beauty to a lover, than one's wit to an echo.' With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the republican ban on organised theatre was lifted - and plays exploded back onto the public stage with newfound relish. The arrival...

'One no more owes one's beauty to a lover, than one's wit to an echo.' With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the republican ban on organised theatre was lifted - and plays exploded back onto the public stage with newfound relish. The arrival...

Actors of colour need the best speeches to demonstrate their skills and hone their craft. Roberta Uno has carefully selected monologues that represent African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian-American identities. Each monologue comes with an...

Schiller's play of 1800 pits Mary Queen of Scots against her rival Elizabeth of England. The meeting never happened, but Goethe claimed 'It will be good to see those whores alongside each other.' Schiller's Mary redeems her youthful crimes through...

Written in the aftermath of World War II, Love Goes to Press opened in London in 1946 and on Broadway in 1947. At the time a relief for the survivors of Blitzkrieg and ration cards, today it is a devilishly entertaining portrayal of the Battle of the...

Two early plays from the acclaimed Irish writer Enda Walsh. bedbound is a ferocious two-hander about a father-daughter relationship gone horribly and terrifyingly wrong. bedbound was first performed at The New Theatre, Dublin, as part of the Dublin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475216Author Michael PeppiattFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780856762000Author Royce RytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Josef Weinberger PlaysPublisher Josef Weinberger Plays

Meet Aurora and Orion: Sister and Brother. Constellations in time. More than blood. More than just fam. They look after each other in their small London flat, filled with the memories of their parents' Black Love. When that love is threatened, they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879101244Author John LahrFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573132452Author Rabiah HussainFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Maybe turn down the opinionated dial? Hari and Max weren't satisfied with their first attempt at parenthood, so they're giving it a second go. Only this time they've got a 30-day money back guarantee and an easy-to-follow construction manual. ...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price A ghoulish and bloody 16th-century tragedy. The ghost of a murdered courtier is promised by Revenge that he will see his murderer killed by his mistress. The two ghostly figures sit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116872Author Agatha ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Hakawati Noun: Storyteller. From the Arabic terms 'hekaye' meaning story and 'haki' meaning to talk. A tyrant revenges his wife's infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new bride every day. Years later, only five brides-in-waiting remain. ...

An irreverent and provocative drama questioning the basis of Christianity, by the author of The Romans in Britain. The most famous conversion in history - when Saul became Paul on the road to Damascus - was a trick. It was actually Jesus appearing to...

With VENUS, Hanif Kureishi turns his piercing gaze onto the pains of old age. Maurice (Peter O'Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran stage actors whose slow, inevitable decline is disrupted by the arrival in their lives of Ian's niece Jessie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573116452Author Bim AdewunmiFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Like the companion volume for men, Alternative ShakespeareAuditions for Women brings together fifty speeches from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also features good, but over-looked speeches from more...

With its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedies. It was first produced in 415 BC just after the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573064906Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789197895477Author Joyce AkessonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Pallas Athena DistributionPublisher Pallas Athena DistributionWeight(grams)...

Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the best-known eighteenth-century comedies of manners, Sheridan's first play, and still his most popular. Lydia Languish, a young woman from a good family, holds to an...

Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays. Each chapter pairs a well-known play from the post-war period with a classic theory...

A rich selection from the best of Nichols' work up to and including his award-winning Privates on Parade This volume continues the stage plays of Peter Nichols, newly revised and introduced by the author. Chez Nous is about English couples who bring...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604443493Author George OrwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying...

'I can't undo what's been said. My world changed this morning. I hope for the better, but we'll see in the future.' Sisters Dolly and Esther grow up in ultra-conservative Harrogate in the 1960s. Fifty years later, following the death of their mother,...

When Bertie is sent away from the African farm of his childhood to school in England, he leaves behind not only his beloved mother and the beautiful land, swarming with wildlife, but also his best friend - a white lion he rescued as a cub. Bertie's...